• Extended calendar integration: You were already able to subscribe to the Doodle ICS feed to keep your calendar up-to-date with the latest Doodle information. Starting today, you can also import your calendar information into your MyDoodle account and have Doodle suggest your availabilities based on your calendar whenever you need to fill in a poll. This feature requires you to open a MyDoodle account; afterwards, you will be able to add your calendar feed here.
• Locations: We introduced an optional feature that allows you to specify an event’s location. The feature is based on Google Maps internationally and on Local.ch in Switzerland.
• Improved XING app: Our Doodle XING app was launched only recently and is already among the most popular apps on XING. As a consequence, we get lots of feedback, and we take it seriously by introducing the following improvements: 1) Users can now merge their XING Doodle account with their normal Doodle account and see the combined dashboard in both worlds. 2) Poll participants can easily be found and invited using the new contact search with auto-completion. 3) Additional participants can be invited even after a poll has been set up. To the Doodle XING app…
• More payment methods: We’ve incorporated Moneybookers and are now able to offer many additional and more convenient payment options to our Branded Doodle customers who want to use Doodle for their business, e.g. many credit cards, bank transfer, etc.

Doodle is launch partner of the new XING Partner Ecosystem. Being a social network, XING enables a number of interesting functions: XING members can recognize Doodle polls they have in common with others, they see the profile picture when someone participates in a poll, and they can invite XING contacts to a meeting with just one click. Starting today, Doodle can be easily installed as a XING application.

Jazoon’09 – The International Conference on Java Technology –  will take place in Zurich, Switzerland from 22 to 25 June 2009. Doodle is also involved:

• Paul and David will have a session on OAuth on Thursday.
• Doodle is an official partner and provides Branded Doodle for the conference organizers.
• Most importantly, you will get a 20% discount on your conference pass (saving CHF 362) if you register for Jazoon via Doodle. To do so, simply enter your name and e-mail address in our form. The form will be open until May 31st. We will also draw one free full conference pass among all the people who register. So there’s another good reason to register.

Our API Contest has been running for two weeks now, together with our partners Sun Microsystems, Nokia, and Zurich Tourism. Today, Victorinox joined as a sponsor. So we are happy that we can now also send out one of their CyberTools 34 to the finalists (max. 10). 

The deadline for the Doodle API Contest is April 14th. The contest challenges all developers who have a great idea for a Doodle-based extension, integration, or mashup. The 1st prize is a trip to Zurich including 5 overnight stays. Read more and submit your app to the contest… ]]> http://doodle.com/blog/english/2009/03/18/victorinox-supports-api-contest/feed/ 0 http://doodle.com/blog/english/2009/02/13/plugg-2009-win-a-free-ticket/ http://doodle.com/blog/english/2009/02/13/plugg-2009-win-a-free-ticket/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:13:58 +0000 mn http://doodle.com/blog/english/?p=216 Update (Feb 24): One of our free tickets goes to Oscar, congratulations and have fun at the conference! Apparently, nobody else was ready to share his or her story after Oscar told his sad story. We’ll give our second free ticket to whoever is next to tell us his/her Doodle story in the comments section.

This year’s Plugg conference will take place on 12 March in Brussels. Doodle is a Plugg media partner and is giving away 2 free tickets! Here’s what you have to do to win one of the tickets:

1. Organize an event with Doodle.
2. Take a screenshot of the resulting Doodle poll.
3. Take some pictures of the event.
4. Upload the screenshot and the pictures to some freely accessible web space (e.g., your personal web site or blog, our friends at Wuala’s space, Flickr,  PBWiki, Wikispaces, …).
5. Tell your story as a comment to this blog post and include the link. Don’t forget to enter your correct e-mail address (it won’t be shown with the comment). Deadline: 23 February 2009 24:00 EST.

The Doodle team (at its sole discretion) will then choose the best (most original, funny, touching, …) 2 stories and announce the winners until 27 February 2009.

(Any comments that are illegal, infringing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise objectionable will be deleted and disqualified.)

Plugg also runs a Start-ups Rally, a launch platform for emerging start-ups looking for early-stage funding and trade press, tech blogger and early-adopter attention. A selection of 20 start-ups with strong roots in Europe will be carefully picked by a jury of renowned industry professionals out of the submitted companies. The deadline is tomorrow, Feb 4th!

Doodle is a Plugg media partner — we’re helping them getting the word out.

Komen Eten Doodle nicely showcases the possibilities of a partnership with Doodle: Our branding features allow the site to be adapted to the look and feel of the overall concept. Doodle’s viral character enables a partner to expose new users to their brand. And the whole partnership was set up in a matter of hours.